Evanston aims to become carbon neutral by 2050 — a goal that’s earned the city accolades as it navigates rising lake levels, extreme temperatures and insufficient infrastructure. To achieve carbon neutrality, the city needs to counter its carbon use by removing an equal amount of carbon from the atmosphere, or by cutting emissions altogether. For.
At a Sunday climate justice rally, Evanston and Chicago residents sang together, joining in a call-and-response song with local folk singer Margaret Nelson to ask: “What are you gonna do?” The “Protect our planet, one pipeline at a time” rally, organized by Chicago Against Line 3, educated attendees about the need to stop pipeline construction.
Tessine Murji is a conservation organizer with the Illinois Sierra Club based in Chicago, but is originally from Montreal. She manages the chapter's federal lobby team to make sure the Illinois delegation is consistently hearing from volunteers on Sierra Club priorities, and that elected officials are living up to their endorsements. She also runs the Chicago group's field